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...East experts, Reischauer and Schwartz, expressed somewhat conservative hopes for a truce settlement in Korea in the near future. The European experts, Friedrich and Elliott stressed the necessity of continuing our policy of rearmament and Russian containment on an undiminished, if not accelerated, scale...
...Communists were obviously hurt. Their propaganda complained that Van Fleet's attacks were "openly inviting war" - a pointless accusation, in view of the fact that it was agreed when the truce talks started that the war would continue until a cease-fire was signed & sealed...
...officers were shown bullet holes in houses and bullet marks on masonry less than a mile from the conference house (in which no truce talks had been held since Aug. 22). Some flattened .50-cal. slugs were lying on the ground; the Reds did not claim that any person had been hit. In addition to this evidence, U.N. officers had other proof - the record kept by their own radar operators. At about the time the Communists said the attack occurred, U.N. radar had spotted a plane over Kaesong. Investigation showed that...
Most of the noteworthy news events of the past summer had this in common: they lacked the quality of reasonable tolerance which characterizes a liberal education. The polemical breakdown of the Kersong truce talks in-korea, the bluff and bluster that have marked the negations over Iranian oil, the wild demonstrations at the Communist youth festival in Berlin, and the continuing hysteria over "subversive elements" that marks certain elements of public and legislative opinion do not create a good atmosphere for studying...
Except for a passing mention in the Globe, the papers declined to discuss MacArthur's big blunder. Someone must have mumbled to the general that the truce agenda had been agreed upon in Kores, for when he visited a hospital a few minutes later he told more than one soldier. "You'll be interested to know that a truce was signed this morning...